Original Tip Date: February 2001
Updated: July 2011
DL=[Enter] can be used in place of DL=0,0,0.
For those of you who haven't been around MicroStation as long as some of us, you may find the following of interest.
Before AccuDraw was added to MicroStation in 1995, all input that required precision was done via keybaord keyins.
Key-in
Alternate Key-in
Distance from
Along
POINT ABSOLUTE
XY=
Design plane origin
Design plane axes
POINT DELTA
DL=
Last tentative or data point
POINT VDELTA
DX=
View axes
POINT DISTANCE
DI=
Relative to view x-axis
For more information, search Help for precision Input Key-ins
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